Alone I go faster, together we go further - Better Caribbean Lifestyles Campaign

No man (or woman) is an island........

Hey everyone,

So this idea of a Better Caribbean starts with you and it starts with me.

How we make our choices about what we buy, what we eat, what we do for a living and what we are willing to change to improve our health and environment - depends on each of our individual experiences in life. Obvious? Well some of us see nothing wrong with pushing a particular lifestyle down the throat of a "less enlightened" soul. How enlightened are YOU if you do this kind of pushing? We all know each person does what they are going to do, when THEY are ready.

What we can do though, is provide as much information and personal experiences of success or failure to make the case that certain personal choices can (and have been proven to) improve our health and environment. However each of us has to prove it for ourselves based on our past experiences and our current circumstances.

What is better for me may not be better or seem better for you. There are a slew of changes we can make to our lifestyles to improve our health or environment. We definitely do not need to put down someone else if they are not making the changes you have made.

Likewise, we need to acknowledge and appreciate the diversity of changes we are each making, if they are indeed improving our health and environment.

This is the beauty of the diversity of people and our life experiences.

Varying experiences can be shared collectively to encourage and celebrate the growth of a movement towards a Better Caribbean.

This is what we are doing with our Better Caribbean Lifestyles Campaign. Look at this as though we are curators of a movement towards a Better Caribbean. We can not do this alone - as Dennis Brown sang ~ No man or woman is an island. If you are reading this, you are moving us towards this Better Caribbean. If you share your story we can move even further.

"Alone I go faster, together we go further." African proverb.

We will share blog entries from anyone willing to share about how their choices shape their health and our environment. See my next post for the questions we are using to shape blog entries.

Better Me. Better We. Better Caribbean.

~ Ariana